Scientific or scriptural proof would be great. Please use real references.
2007-07-18 07:14:22 · 33 answers · asked by Peter 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Show me how the Bible contradicts itself (this would be a reference). Shouldn't that satisfy the claim that God does not exist.
Moreover, science should be able to prove that there is no God. A text book or manual from science would be satisfactory.
I am not asking this question to prove my case. I just want to know what logic, by science and education, proves there would be no God.
2007-07-18 07:33:45 · update #1
The same proof that you have Thor doesn't exist...actually just a little more.
Since God is supposed to be infallable, and is supposed to "protect" the Bible from editing, all I have to do is rewrite the Bible to prove God isn't real. OR, I could point out inconsistencies in the Bible, of which there are many. The Bible is our source for knowledge about God (as JK Rawlings is our source for knowledge about Voldemort) and it is also the greatest weakness in the argument for God actually existing.
2007-07-18 07:19:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 0⤋
You must be new here. You simply cannot prove a negative. For instance, can you prove that Zeus and Apollo do not exist? And how on earth could anyone "prove" the non-existence of God using scriptural proof??? The scriptures are ABOUT God, aren't they? Why don't people think through their questions before they ask them?
Edit: Why should science be able to prove there is no God? No one...not even a scientist...can prove a negative. What part of "cannot prove a negative" do you not understand?
2007-07-18 07:23:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
1. Atheism is the absence of belief in any gods, not the belief in the absence of any gods. There's a difference.
2. The burden of proof rests with the person making the ridiculous claim, not the people who haven't fallen for it.
The idea of 'a god' is obviously unfalsifiable. Such a being is not required to impact on anything in an observable or measurable way, so one cannot prove that it does not exist.
The god frequently called God, as described by the Christian Bible can easily be demonstrated to be false. Starting at the beginning, the Bible claims that God is a being that created everything in more or less its current form about 6000 years ago over a period of about six days. Modern science demonstrates irrefutably hundreds of times over that Earth, life and the universe are much older, formed over a much longer period, and went through transitional forms. Therefore the being described in the Bible does not exist.
2007-07-18 07:20:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
what proof do you have that mighty mouse doesn't exist?
The burden of proof lies on the party trying to make the claim.
Thus athiests require NO proof, those making the claim that "god" exists or that "the moon is made of cheese" or that the earth revolves around the sun are the ones that require proof.
The only evidence that can possibly brought by creationists to show that god exists is inherently flawed and laughable. That would of course be the bible.
The bible as evidence is even less reliable than uncorroborated hearsay evidence from a pathological liar who is 4 years of age.
2007-07-18 07:20:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
First of all as I'm sure you've seen from other answers you cannot prove a negative aboout anything - that's just plain old common sense
That being said
I consider anyone who doesn't want to prove the existence of their god a coward.
Why wouldn't you want to glorify your god by proving his existence?
Coward, coward, coward
2007-07-18 07:30:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
We can't prove anything without a clear definition of the terms used in the argument.
Define "God", and I'll get back to you.
2007-07-18 07:23:06 · answer #6 · answered by marbledog 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
While the burden of proof is on your shoulders (you're the one claiming he exists- its up to YOU to prove it to me), the SHEER LACK OF PHYSICAL EVIDENCE is enough evidence to prove his non existance. Simple as that.
As far as the CHRISTIAN god? LOL- all the proof I'll ever need is right in your very own Bible.
edit: paul s- activate your email, hate mail is half the fun!!!
2007-07-18 07:19:07 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 0⤋
there can be no proof either way. quantum mechanics has shown us that the objective world independent of all observers is out of our reach.
god is just a concept for each of us to conceive of differently. and based on the nature of the debate around this particular concept throughout history i believe that this concept like truth and love and all others, is man made.
but this reality is man made, formed in each mind individually. so really its all up to you, and both sides of the debate are necessary.
2007-07-18 07:21:23 · answer #8 · answered by renegadephilosopher 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Can't prove a negative. Logical fallacy. Try again.
Notice that this isn't even worth whole sentances anymore? What do they teach in English classes for debate these days...
2007-07-18 07:16:46 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 12⤊ 0⤋
Give it up. Faith cannot be proved or disproved by science. Believing is a different order of being from knowing.
2007-07-18 07:19:02 · answer #10 · answered by gilpers302 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋